Western Heights Preservation Society
Sunday 16th August saw our final workday inside the Drop Redoubt fort for this year. September brings our North Entrance tours as part of the wider Heritage Open Days event – click HERE for tickets to the tours and more info. These tours are free but pre-booking is essential. Workdays will then continue over autumn […]
Thanks to all who came and took part at our annual Open Weekend from 20th to 21st June, whether members of the public, families and children, volunteers or re-enactors. It was a splendid weekend with high engagement, good weather and lots of fun. We at WHPS look forward to doing it again next year. Thank […]
Thanks to all volunteers who helped on the very productive May 17th workday at our fabulous Drop Redoubt fort! Tasks accomplished included: – Moving rubble in Caponier 4 in preparation for new flooring – Painting the wooden parts of the casemates – Painting the crowd barriers – Mowing, strimming and weeding the Drop Redoubt site […]
Sunday 19th April saw our return to the inside of the Drop Redoubt fort and our first tours of 2026. Thanks to all who came and also for the generous donations on the day! As a volunteer organisation and charity we really do rely on your support to keep these tours running and to look […]
The next WHPS workday will be Sunday 19th April, all are welcome to come along and help! As usual after the winter break, we will be doing gardening and housework duties around the Drop Redoubt fort and generally getting things up and running again and back to normal. Volunteers are welcome to join from 10:30am, […]
All tours are now fully booked – we look forward to seeing you all on your tour! The Western Heights Preservation Society are pleased to be able to announce that we are opening the Napoleonic North Entrance road tunnels and gun rooms once again in 2022! This is a ‘once a year’ opportunity to […]